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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (3): 435–462.
Published: 01 September 2023
... with a doorway leading to another hallway spawning yet another endless series of empty rooms and passageways. . . . This desire for exteriority is no doubt further amplified by the utter blankness found within. (119) Blindly wandering and fumbling through the dark and serpentine passages, those who quest...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (2): 175–207.
Published: 01 June 2005
... to be autobiographical,have no known basis in the historical record—I argue that the limits of representation are best conceived as functions of the limits of intention. Further, because intention's failure—whether conceived as an inability or as an unwillingness to form meaningful utterance—is necessarily...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (3): 503–519.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Jonathan Culler The notion of the performative—an utterance that accomplishes the act that it designates—was proposed by the philosopher J. L. Austin to describe a type of utterance neglected by philosophers. This article follows the vicissitudes of the concept in literary and cultural theory...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (1-2): 1–52.
Published: 01 June 2013
... monologue presumably uttered by the twentieth-century painter David Hockney. But where is the ekphrasis? The given two-in-one invites a search for Hockney paintings, concealed behind the text’s ostensible glances at the medieval painting by Giovanni. A close reading discloses that some Hockney artworks...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 235–253.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Terence Cave Literary utterances reflect the situatedness of cognition itself both through their historico-cultural specificity and through their deployment of highly particularized language. It follows that the literary archive (in the broadest sense, all forms of storytelling, fiction, poetry...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2005) 26 (1): 79–111.
Published: 01 March 2005
... appear to be characterized by an increased demand in processing effort for the attainment of maximum contextual effects, but this increase is limited to the resolution of incongruities typical of this sort of utterance. Also, social-behavioral theories of humor relate the effect of jokes...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2000) 21 (3): 561–590.
Published: 01 September 2000
..., the ontological rug having been pulled out from under them, are retrospectively reframed as ekphrases. Similarly, putatively autobiographical confessions are reframed as the utterance of a fictional persona. Finally,ars-poetic statements, which seem to promise hermeneutical mastery over the text, are evacuated...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 605–639.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Franz Kafka, “The Judgment,” performativity, indirect speech acts, inde-
terminacy
Often described as Franz Kafka’s “breakthrough” work, “The Judgment”
(1913) culminates in a paradigmatic example of a performative utterance and
a striking illustration of the force of language: the protagonist’s...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (2): 379–391.
Published: 01 June 2000
... to its stipulated ability to stage
the social diversity of speech and languages by juxtaposing consciousnesses,
points of view, utterances, languages, and styles without subjecting them to
the author’s unifying...
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (4): 657–684.
Published: 01 December 2002
... what
by the sequencing of the utterances, but with multiparty talk, this is much
more difficult and can result in confusion. However, my research (Thomas
has shown that the comic novel of the s and s provides a
rich source of experimentation with multiparty talk, perhaps because the
reader is more...
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (2): 327–350.
Published: 01 June 2002
... and sketches the anti-Wittgensteinian argument that lan-
guage understanding depends on reducing utterance tokens to their ideal
types. Dowling suggests that, because ‘‘few of us are so articulate that we just
come right out and speak in perfectly formed English sentenceswhat
more normally happens...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2008) 29 (3): 473–523.
Published: 01 September 2008
.... 1969 “Utterer's Meaning and Intention,” Philosophical Review 78 : 144 -77. Hancher, Michael 1972 “Three Kinds of Intention,” MLN 87 : 827 -51. 1981 “Humpty Dumpty and Verbal Meaning,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 40 (1): 49 -58. Hirsch, E. D. 1967 Validity...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2000) 21 (2): 470–473.
Published: 01 June 2000
... and interaction. The utterance aims to construct inter-
dependent images of self and Other, sensitive to the play of mutual in-
luences and consistent with the stereotypes of a given society. The fictional
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Journal Article
Poetics Today (2019) 40 (4): 747–749.
Published: 01 December 2019
...-genre-as-useful-tool to the entire set of assump- tions governing the toolbox. New Books at a Glance 747 Bialostosky s definition of a poem is markedly different from those formal- ist approaches that treat poems as holy kinds of utterances whose meanings are protected and policed by a tribe of academic...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2004) 25 (4): 573–594.
Published: 01 December 2004
... and nonapophantic discourse, which Aristotle
clearly establishes on the basis of an utterance’s referential relation to reality
and the world, is further elaborated in the Poetics (to which, among other
things, the reader interested in nonapophantic discourse is referred in On
Interpretation).10 Aristotle (1999...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (3): 591–618.
Published: 01 September 2000
..., his
claims convey a joint communicative intent, the ‘‘we’’ designates both topic
entity and originator of the discourse, and his utterance possesses the status
of group or collective speech act. But if the speaker is not so empowered,
the ‘‘we’’ tokens in his discourse designate topic entity only...
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (3): 427–442.
Published: 01 September 2002
... (used in the singular, follow-
ing the paradigm of doxa): ‘‘under the influence of mythical inversion, the
highly contingent foundations of the utterance become Common Sense,
Good Law, the Norm, Standard Opinion, in a word, Endoxa...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 705–707.
Published: 01 December 2016
... the
concept of pretension. From the perspective of this approach, authors of fiction
pretend to make assertions, i.e., they pretend that they deliver authentic
utterances. After examining the whole spectrum of the theories of pretension,
Koten reaches the conclusion that their main significance lies...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 707–710.
Published: 01 December 2016
... assertions, i.e., they pretend that they deliver authentic
utterances. After examining the whole spectrum of the theories of pretension,
Koten reaches the conclusion that their main significance lies in their claim
that only speech acts that can represent a certain state of affairs are subject...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 710–712.
Published: 01 December 2016
... the
concept of pretension. From the perspective of this approach, authors of fiction
pretend to make assertions, i.e., they pretend that they deliver authentic
utterances. After examining the whole spectrum of the theories of pretension,
Koten reaches the conclusion that their main significance lies...
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